Scales, Lines and Minor Geographies

Whither King Island

Bibliographic Data

ID8087396
AuthorsMatt Bradshaw (0000-0002-4865-8042, University of Tasmania, corresponding author), Stewart Williams (0000-0002-9603-7013, University of Tasmania)
Year1999
Volume37
Issue3
Pages248-267
Publication date1999-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Geographical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-9190 • E-ISSN: 1467-8470
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-8470.00082
OpenAlexW2135485353
LanguageEN
Citations received10

These are exciting times for geographers, with stimulating possibilities being offered to the discipline by various bodies of poststructural, especially deleuzian, theory. There is, however, a dearth of empirical studies utilising these opportunities, particularly in Australian geography. King Island, located in Bass Strait, is used in this article to broach some theoretical potentials. First, we introduce deleuzian theory. Second, we view King Island through three geographic representations and respective mappings. Third, we discuss the implications of lived practices, which constitute various (major and minor) geographies on and of King Island, for existing perspectives on spatial relations and linear flows between local and global scales. Lastly, we explore some recent treatments of space inflected through the work of Deleuze and Guattari, consolidating some spatial concepts and relations gleaned from King Island's cartographic moments and movements

Art · Cartography · Economic geography · Geography · Humanities · Minor (academic · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Philosophy · Rural development and sustainability

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